Research project: Sailing Away: Global Seismic Imaging of the Oceanic Plates
Oceanic lithosphere constitutes the bulk of Earth's tectonic plates and also likely represents the building blocks of the continental lithosphere. The depth and nature of the oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary are central to our understanding of the definition of the tectonic plates and lithospheric evolution. But precise imaging of the lower boundary of the oceanic lithosphere has proven challenging (Rychert, 2011).